File-band and confining-clasp therefor



(No Model.)

E. J. HALL & H. I. NORTON. FILE BAND AND GONFINING CLASP THEREFOR. No.434,926.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD .I. HALL AND HARRISON I. NORTON, OF BENNINGTON, VERMONT.

FILE-BAND AND CONFINING CLASP THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,926, dated August26, 1890.

Application filed January 21, 1890. Serial No. 337,585. (No model.)-

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWARD J. HALL and HARRISON I. NORTON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Bennington, in the county of Benningtonand State of Vermont, have invented new and useful Improvements inFile-Bands and ConfiningClasps Therefor, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in file-bands and clasps orconfining devices therefor, the object of the invention being to improvethe construction of contrivances of this class and to render to the sameadvantageous characteristics or capabilities which have not heretoforeexisted in other devices for similar use; and the invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, all substantially as willhereinafter more fully appear, and as specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the present improved device is illustrated.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a file-band embracing a bundle ofpapers and showing the clasp as in its confining engagement. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the clasp and the terminal portions of the file-bandand illustrative of a manipulation of the parts to secure a loosening ofthe band. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of parts of the file-band andclasp similar to those shown in Fig. 2, but on a considerably enlargedscale, said view also showing a slight modification inconstruction,which will hereinafter be pointed out in connection withthe advantage derived therefrom.

The clasp device consists, in part, of two frames or rings a a,preferably of rectangular form, as shown, and the. one above and uponthe other, and to the one side or end I) of each thereof one end of thefile-band cl is connected, and said band thence from said attachmentwith the ends I) of said frames passes around the bundle of papers underthe front bar (2 of the lower frame and then upwardly to the rear of andover the front bar 6 of the upper frame and then under said bar 6 of thelower frame, but lying on and above the portion 10 of the band firstmentioned as passed under said front bar. By

drawing on the free end of the band g to shorten the loop surroundingthe bundle of papers the forward bar 6 of the upper frame is drawnagainst the adjacent bar 6 of the lower frame pressing upon and bindingthat portion f of the file-band which is between them and confining itagainst endwise movement, and the closer the band is drawn increasingits tension about the bundle the firmer the said portion f of the bandwill be confined.

The device further consists in a handle or lifter m, which has anengagement with the looped portion a; of the band which has beendescribed as passing rearwardly from under the lower bar 6, over andaround the upper bar e of the frame, and thence under the said lowerbar, as at 10, and upon drawing 011 said lifter a strain may be impartedto said loop portion m of the band to elongate it, as seen in Fig. 2. Inthe elongation of the loop 00 by draft thereon through the lifter thesaid loop receives slack band length from the free and surplus portion gof the band, and then by releasing the draft on the lifter the slackcomprised in the elongated loop may be drawn so as to be comprised inthe large bundle-surroundin loop formed by the major part of the bandlength.

The lifter m, as shown, consists of a frame formed, preferably, of wirebentinto triangular or rectangular form, one bar of which being the partembraced by the loop portion 00, the other sides of the frameconstituting that portion which is to be grasped in manipulating theclasp device.

In Fig. 3 the lifter-frameis shown as formed of wire, which is ofconsiderably larger diameter than that of the wire from which the framesto a are formed. Vere the lifterfraine made of quite thin wire, therewould be so sharp a contact and so great a tension by the loop-engagin gbar with the band-loop that in drawing on the lifter the said bandwould, due to its narrow contact with the bar, be prevented from freelyrunning over the bar in the attempt to slacken the loop.

It is deemed in the present clasp a matter of considerable advantage tohave the lifter applied directly at the loop which encircles or engagesthe frame-bars e e, for the reason that in operation to loosen the claspthe lifter is rendered more direct of action and free, while at the sametime the clasp is thereby in no way affected as to its capabilities foreffective confinement.

WVhat We claim as our invention is 1. A file-band and clasp or confiningdevice therefor, in combination and arrangement, as follows: the twoframes, to one side of each of which one end of the file-band isconnected, said file-band by a loop in its other terminal portion beingpassed under the forward bar of the lower frame, thence upwardly aroundthe adjacent bar of the upper frame, and then under the said lower bar,as described, and a lifter directly engaged with said loop in thefile-band, all substantially as described, and for the purpose setforth.

2-. The double-frame clasp formed of com paratively fine wire,substantially as described, combined with the file-band by its one endbeing secured to said frames at one side thereof and by aloop in itsother terminal portion having a relation and engagement with the frontbars of the said frames, substantially as shown,and a lifter consistingof a frame formed of wire of larger diameter than that from which theclasp-frames are formed and by one bar thereof having an engagement withsaid loop in the file-band, substan- 2 5 tially as described.

EDXVARD J. HALL. HARRISON I. NORTON.

